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Vehicle Seat.

Patented Dc. 17, 1867.

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Joann. D. v. LI'NTON, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. Letters Patent No. 72,307, dated December 17, 1867.

IMPROVED SEAT FOR VEHICLES.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN It. D. V. LINTON, of New Bedford, in the county of-Bristol, andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seat-Risers for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved seat-riser.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

7 This invention relates to a new kind of seat-riser or seat-legs used on wagons, carriages, sleighs, and vehicles of any description.

The inventionconsists in the use of cast-metal risers in place of the'ordinary wooden risers or supports.

Such risers, when made of cast metal, possess great and important advantages over wooden risers in respect to beauty of appearance, convenience, and cheapness.

A represents the frame of a wagon-seat; B represents the body of a wagon; C G are the supports or risers,

by which the seat is supported. The same are madeof cast metal, of snitable shape and height, and are, at

their upper edges, provided each with a horizontal flange, a, projecting towards .the inside, as shown in fig. 2. The flange a is perforated, so that screws can be fitted through it from the under side into the bottom plate of the seat, to fasten the same to the risers. Asthe cast-metal riser is -made open, it is easy to reach the screwheads from the-side; whereas, on solid wooden risers,

the screws cannot be reached from"the under side, and

the screws have, therefore, to be inserted from above into the flange of the risers. Thereby,.when the riser becomes useless, it becomes neccssary'to remove the seat-t my arrangement the seat-trimmings are never disturbed. O which overlap the rail of the wagon-body. In my cast risers these lips are cast to the risers, and will, therefore, be rigidly secured to the same. For the wooden risers these lips are made of wrought iron, and are secured to the risers by means of screws, which screws invariably get loose by wear, thereby making theseat insecure. The lips I) can, for certainkinds of vehicles, be substituted by other suitable devices.

It has always been a difficulty in constructing seat-risers of wood of sufficiently light and graceful appearonce to be ornamental, besides being strong enough. My riser obviates these difliculties completely, and admits of an unlimited variety of designs,-which, from. the fact of their being cast in metal, have a graceful, light appearance, adding greatly to the general beauty of the vehicles on which they are used. It is certainly evident that they can bemadc of any desired degree of strength. tis also evident that a cast-metal riser can be made cheaper than. a wooden riser of equal appearance.

Another advantage of the cast riser is, that it can be readily replace new one will be instantly ready for use; while, where the wooden risers are'use vehicle becomes useless until the different coats of paint are dry on the new riser.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patcnt- As a new article of manufacture, a cast-metal seat-riser, made substantially as herein shown and described.

JOHII R. D. V. LINTON.

d by a new one when broken, and the d, when 'one is broken the Witnesses:

JOHN W. MINOR, Josuua M. Jenner.

rimmings in order to get at the screws, while with' n the lower edge of the risers are formed lips, b b, l 

